[HTTPCORE-137] Problem handling HTTP PUT requests

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0-alpha6
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-beta1
• Component/s: HttpCore
• Environment: Java JDK 1.6.0_03 on Windows XP Service Pack 2
• Assignee: Roland Weber
• Reporter: Ronald E Johnson
• Created: 07/Jan/08 20:22
• Updated: 09/Feb/09 21:38
• Resolved: 10/Jan/08 12:37

Description

I have a Java Swing application with an HttpServer() instance running in a SwingWorker thread. I'm able to get at the HTTP GET requests by casting the request as follows:

if (request instanceof HttpEntityEnclosingRequest) {
HttpEntity entity = ((HttpEntityEnclosingRequest) request).getEntity();
byte[] entityContent = EntityUtils.toByteArray(entity);
logger.info("Incoming entity content (bytes): " + entityContent.length);
}

However this does not work for PUT requests. In fact printing out the request line of a PUT request appears as: "HEAD /test.txt HTTP/1.1", and I don't see PUT in the request line at all. Attempting to cast this as an HttpEntityEnclosingRequest fails, and thus I'm not able to get at the HttpEntity. Is this functionality supported?